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by drak0n1c 6y ago
The existence of popular engagement with a subset of allowed right-wing content does not mean there is no censorship of other right-wing content. If most of the political content on a platform by volume is right-wing, then it actually would
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by drak0n1c 6y ago
To clarify, people polled were specifically in favor of adding a public option, not so much for regulating or abolishing private options. https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/medicare-for-all-isnt-t...
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Smartphones. They started picking up critical mass by 2010. Within a couple years social sites in all corners of internet culture started going downhill in various ways whether Facebook, Twitter, Reddit, 4chan, etc. The web had existed prev
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Twitter now censors those who "misrepresents its affiliation with or impersonates a candidate, elected official, political party, or government entity". How would a contemporary Jonathan Swift fare?
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That's the point. Why should a private business like Coinbase accommodate far-left ideologues against capitalism and its very existence? That seems incongruous.
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There is now even a job site for firms and employees that want to avoid toxic accusatory work environments: https://www.unwoke.hr/
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I disagree with your assessment of "materially positive". Police response times have been dismal in my neighborhood in North Seattle, and crime has increased. The maintenance man who worked with my wife downtown was murdered by a
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Deliberately curated recommendation algorithms to maximize negative perceptions could conceivably be worse than those that do such accidentally.
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On the other hand, the contents also show that breathless reporting of past foreign deals and money were pure rumor.
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Apples to oranges in that comparison. His U.S. companies also pay their own federal and state/city taxes.
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Spotify employees threaten to strike if Joe Rogan podcasts aren’t edited/removed(digitalmusicnews.com)
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Because blocking new power plant construction via environmental regulation is more important to politicians.
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He was CTO during that entire period, there are product leadership responsibilities associated with that position.
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Senior Biden cybersecurity advisor participated in weev troll group(washingtonexaminer.com)
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Senior Biden campaign cybersecurity expert part of weev troll group(washingtonexaminer.com)
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A donation from or friendship with the Koch brothers or George Soros is not a good reason to stick your head in the sand when you notice a dissenting voice.
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Nearly every immature teenager of both sexes has stack-ranked their sexual interest in peers when gossiping with friends. Yes, a teenager hacking together a website that does such publicly is worse because of how it magnifies the behavior a
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Animals in general, whether Humans or Orcas, don't grant members of other species special understanding or consideration and are usually very ruthless. It's the biological norm, and not unique to humanity. Humans are unique in tha
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It doesn't help when progressive cities like Seattle provide giant recycling bins to houses with no charge for pickup, while charging regressive high prices for small regular garbage bins. It's a huge incentive just to throw exces
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Twitter, social media, and now even regular media stories are a game of telephone, with slight misinterpretations snowballing as the minutes and hours go by. People lining up to fight on both sides of accidental straw man theses is a weekly
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Only due to the recent habit of tossing toys and all kinds of junk in recycling bins, where they don't belong. Over-recycling is worse for the planet than simply throwing away garbage responsibly. Most parts of the US have no shortage
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There is no distinction - all markets are ruled by consent. Both parties have to agree to a voluntary transaction, and that applies to employees and products.
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Anti-fossil fuel mandates imposed by the California legislature is part of the reason there is a shortage of power in various areas. Rushing the transition without enough alternative supply in place is a recipe for further problems. https:
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If you want Chromium and care about ad-blocking and privacy, Brave might be preferable. It lets you disable the crypto features entirely if you don't care for that side of it.
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People weren’t being deliberately destroyed at the early stages when Kristallnacht occurred either. I believe that’s the reasoning behind why prominent activists and lawmakers (rightly or wrongly) compared federal actions in Portland to the
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This week in Seattle, a popular weatherman on local NPR radio was fired for a post on his personal blog, where he criticized violent rioters and compared the chilling effects of their targeted property damage to historical examples, such as
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They did "control for socioeconomic status", I assume that means levels of costly self-care were distributed across both political aisles when they were setting up the study.
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by drak0n1c 6y ago
You may need to dive in a bit past the initial pages, but you can find fine-grained weekly and daily stats and graphs on pages like: https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/covid19/excess_deaths.htm...
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Is this the first time a video or image content hosting platform has been banned at the host url level by Twitter?
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From a climate perspective, I've seen articles saying that flaring is bad for the environment, and other articles saying that raw natural gas methane leaking into the atmosphere is also very bad. We know that methane is 84x more potent

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